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...answer is to adapt the way we practice wildlife and land conservation to climate change. There's a term for this - adaptive management - and last week the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a Cambridge-based think tank, brought together conservation leaders from around the U.S. to discuss how to cope with warming. Led by James Levitt, the director of the program on conservation innovation at Harvard Forest, dozens of executives from groups like the National Wildlife Federation and the Nature Conservancy, along with a few representatives from the government, tried to work out a new framework for the biggest challenge...
Today, Pisani finds that fund raisers, donors and government officials remain hesitant to discuss the nitty-gritty details of AIDS transmission - details of sharing needles, gay cruising and the sex trade. Pisani's book lays out the relevant science. It explains, for example, why regular sex with the same five partners is riskier than 10 successive monogamous relationships, and why sharing needles is more dangerous than almost any kind of sexual activity...
...understand Islam better. Eboo Patel, a young Muslim from Chicago who is the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, hopes Blair will bring a new dynamism to an interfaith movement that can sometimes seem to consist of the same people meeting endlessly to discuss the same issues...
...employment. Here's how he defines a green job: "It has to pay decent wages and benefits that can support a family. It has to be part of a real career path, with upward mobility. And it needs to reduce waste and pollution and benefit the environment." (Hear Angelides discuss the green-collar revolution on this week's Greencast...
...Florida beyond the echo chamber of the older Cuban exile community. He's likely to find a growing number of younger, more moderate Cuban-Americans who no longer believe the 46-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba will topple the Castro regime and who yearn to hear candidates discuss matters besides Cuba, like the alarming lack of accessible health care among Latinos. "Waving the bloody shirt of anti-Castro politics is going to be less effective" in this election, says political analyst Dario Moreno of Florida International University in Miami. "The Cuba issue is losing its saliency...